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- 01 Feb 2001
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Drilling Down
The news last October of Chevron's proposed acquisition of Texaco for $36 billion in stock was hardly surprising to industry analysts. The planned merger — which would streamline projects and save some $1.2 billion annually — was considered the most logical path for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI
ChatGPT burst into the public consciousness on November 30, 2022. Within two months, the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) software, which leverages a large language model (LLM) to produce human-like, text-based conversations, had reached an estimated 100... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
than 45 energy conservation measures, offsetting greenhouse gas emissions by the equivalent of 2,495 metric tons of carbon dioxide, reducing operating costs $920,000, and maximizing utility rebates totaling upwards of $830,000. Shad’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
successful, but we didn’t know to what degree. We knew that the utility would be universal and that the price point was right. That combination can mean a large market. At the same time, we worried that the product would need revisions in... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
energy and make a profit." "The challenge was to find ways to conserve energy and make a profit." Few industries would seem to be more at odds with resource conservation issues than the electric utility business, where profitability has... View Details
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
On the 50th floor of a global law firm, overlooking a cold and rainy Manhattan skyline in November, more than 70 Harvard Business School alumni gathered to learn from each other and confront the business implications of climate change together. Hosted by the HBS... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Innovative Thinking Fuels Nascent Startup Scene
reason is last-mile delivery challenges in a region where people often lack formal street addresses, a problem solved by UAE-based startup Fetchr, which utilizes smartphone GPS coordinates for delivery. Vitoria Ivashina, Lovett-Learned... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
An American Story
helped edit his dissertation, “World War II Manpower Mobilization and Utilization in a Local Labor Market.” “His sentences sometimes ran on and on in the Germanic way, so I would tighten them up a bit,” she remembers. In a tough job... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
HBS Club of Ireland Puts Management Skills to Work
a way to help the communities in this region. In considering what they could do in this volatile area, club members decided to focus on what they do best: business management. And they decided to utilize a format with which they were all... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981
Harvard College. Instead, he opted for HBS and then a job in Mumbai with his father at Mahindra Ugine Steel (MUSCO). Soon after he arrived, the young Harvard MBA was called on to restructure and diversify MUSCO. That was the preparation he needed to join View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Starting Lineup: Power Plays
MORE Folsom Labs’ Paul Grana on what it means to live a “quantified” life on the Skydeck podcast MORE Folsom Labs’ Paul Grana on what it means to live a “quantified” life on the Skydeck podcast Illustrations by Drue Wagner The Company The Leadership The Pitch The News... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Into the Light
More than 1.2 billion people worldwide live without access to electricity. Another 2 billion have limited electricity, just a few hours of often unreliable power a day. “It’s really hard for most of us to imagine a life without electricity,” explains Nicole Poindexter... View Details
- 22 Feb 2017
- News
Funding Solar’s Future
Photos courtesy Double Time Capital Photos courtesy Double Time Capital A recent Fortune article profiles Double Time Capital, an investment firm focused on utility-scale solar farms in North Carolina founded by Rye Barcott (MBA 2009) and Dan McCready (MBA 2011). Both... View Details
- 20 Nov 2014
- News
3 Boston Startups Named to TIME's Best Inventions of 2014
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Steve Barger (MBA 1974)
Growing up, Steve Barger spent his summers picking crops in Oregon until he was old enough to work in the cannery his father ran. A graduate of Williams College, he has two children and is married to his hometown sweetheart. Barger is president of Northwest Cascade, a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
An Electrifying Tale
Prior to earning her MBA, Maryanne Cataldo (MBA ’92) decided to leave Washington, D.C., and her job as an economist in order to plug into a different career. She moved to Boston and joined an electrical workers union as an apprentice. “I said, ‘Now that sounds like a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Delivering the Power to Dream Big
Bart Howe (MBA 2011) envisions a time when tablet computers are self-charging and when buildings will generate their own power. Ubiquitous Energy, a company he cofounded that is creating a new generation of solar cells, puts these innovations within reach. The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
resuscitate securitization, we should utilize off-balance-sheet entities but with a transparent process and capital charges that are based on actual risks. We want banks to disclose their potential liabilities to these entities and to put... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
In Charge
and descendant of a Creole voodoo princess, landed on her feet. A former utility executive and state official in Illinois, she became the new CEO of Johnson Publishing, which produces Ebony and Jet magazines. About her stint in the White... View Details